Most of time success is tied with money. I grew up thinking the same because the image that they potray for rich people is happy faces. Is it really the case? I happened to know a few of the ultra rich people and to my surprise not all of them happy with their achievement. I believe that it gets lonelier at the top, the friends that you have either too little or too phony or just there for their own benefit.
What's worse is that it's going to be hard for them to distinguish the real and the fake friends. For so many years I've been wanting to make the first million so bad in order to think that I could be considered as successful person until one day I realized that money doesn't equal to happiness. Happiness is by choice and it is totally up to a person to be happy, or not.
I am saying this because I have been trough some phase in life where the money doesn't make me as happy as I thought. It is also sad to have to tell the closed one that your beliefs has changed. I still gonna prove to them one day!. Isn't irony that those rich person(not all) usually ends up doing drugs and whatnot. I mean, they can literally do anything with their shit tonnes of money but they choose to do things that do harm to themselves.
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